78 RPM - Laurel And Hardy - Laurel And Hardy / Laurel And Hardy In The Dance Of The Cuckoos - Columbia - UK

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Laurel And Hardy
Label:	Columbia
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	DX 370
Date:	Sep 1932
Format:	12"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	4 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Laurel And Hardy	Laurel And Hardy		Rate
B	Laurel And Hardy	Laurel And Hardy In The Dance Of The Cuckoos		Rate

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Both sides credit the artists as "Hal Roach & Metro Goldwyn Mayer Present Laurel And Hardy". Side A is an untitled spoken comedy routine, and no writers are credited on either track.

A mx: CAX 6486; B mx: CAX 6488.

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Gilberts004 SUBS 15th Oct 2020		According to page 11 in issue 510 October 2020 Record Collector Stan and Babe entered The Abbey Road Studio at 3 and made their only commercial record in this sketch, written by Laurel, on 18 August 1932. as stated by Shellac Attack



Railmaster London 29th Apr 2019		I have added , assuming it as primary release the USA release of this disc. But was it recorded in USA or UK ?



Shellac Attack 24th Feb 2017		Caveat: I'm citing what should be factual, but I can't find my Rust entertainment discography and therefore can't provide specific discographical information. But here's some insight into these two terrific performances and recordings made by the great duo. I'm referring to the two sides as a pair of performances and recordings because they weren't done contiguously. I don't recall the master #s, but there was one missing between the two sides. I think that they had "CAX" prefixes. For example, side one would have been CAX-1. Side 2 would've been CAX-2. But if it was 'CAX-3' there was no hypothetical CAX-2. The contents of that missing master weren't cited in Rust's compendium perhaps because it wasn't indicated in the recording log. If, without touching your volume and tone controls, you listen carefully to Ollie's voice at the end of side 1 and the beginning of side 2, you'll hear that their tonalities are very different. They should be the same. But on side 2 his voice is much more clear and powerful. Comparing his voice between the inner most grooves of side 1 to the outer most of side 2 would yield a false comparison because as all of you must know, the velocities of outer most grooves are much faster than those of the innermost ones. They're both turning at the same rpm, but their speeds are very different: the faster the speed, the better the high frequency response. "remember Stanley, speed is distance divided by time. Referring to an rpm as a speed is utterly sophomoric". I'm stopping for a moment to twiddle my tie to be sure that you understand this rule of math & geometry. At the very beginning of the second side, Ollie starts by saying something like "ladies and gentlemen, this is again Laurel and Hardy." Stan then cuts in with "in two parts" after which Ollie gruffly and abruptly says "will you shut up?" The dialog eventually concludes by Ollie introducing the orchestra. Stan gets in the last word by saying "good bye" either before the rousing orchestral performance that follows, or right after it. Getting back to technicalities, Ollie's proximity to the microphone is self-evidently different than when the dialog stopped at the outer most grooves of side one. His spacing and orientation to the mic had moved enough to change the audio. Also, perhaps the recording level and equalization were changed. These possibilities suggest that it wasn't just an interval to set a new blank wax disk on the lathe to continue recording. For whatever reason, something else apparently occurred in that interval. Technically, they're the typically superb examples of what English Columbia and HMV were recording at that time. If you're lucky enough to obtain and or listen to a laminated (versus homogenous) pressing, given equal wear, the former will have much less noise and distortion. Also, the reference on the two labels to Hal Roach should be self evident. But MGM? That's because MGM was then the distributing company for Roach. That's why, in original (uncut) versions, Leo the lion roars prior to the Hal Roach title & theme music. I think that the recordings were done in August, 1932 when Ollie & Stan (let's give Ollie first citation for a change) were on their momentous trip in Europe. They were swamped by fans at every possible opportunity for the public to get near them. I don't know if they appeared on the BBC. If so, then theoretically, a recording could've been made of that (those?) broadcasts. My head swirls at that ecstatic thought. But this was not their only recording. As Ollie might say, "now tut tut tut, we made another recording about 12 years later." It's a war-time half hour preview (aka audition) for NBC. It lacks commercials and might've only been used closed circuit, or via disks provided to NBC executives and potential sponsors to evaluate the concept's potential. It bears an unhappy similarity to their pathetic post-Roach features. A final point: the playback of the disk used for the "Sons Of The Desert" 45 was terrible. It was not remotely equivalent to the superb quality of the originals. Well, I see that I'm running into the inner most grooves of this disk. My tonearm's about to thrown off of the record by the turntable's amazing ability to know when time's up.



xiphophilos 30th Sep 2016		B side:



RobertG 30th Sep 2016		Not image of the labels, but added sleeve advertisement for DX370. Take LAUREL and HARDY Home with You! Up to now you have only been able to enjoy Laurel and Hardy in the cinema. Now you can take them home and enjoy their fun in the family circle. This Columbia is their first and only gramophone record, and in addition to their funny fooling there is given for the first time their quaint little theme tune, the "Dance of the Cuckoos" Here is their Record (a) LAUREL AND HARDY THEMSELVES (b) LAUREL AND HARDY IN "DANCE OF THE CUCKOOS."



musictom SUBS 29th Sep 2016		Reissued on 45 RPM, probably 1978. See http://www.45cat.com/record/nc517526xu

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USA - Columbia - 1932